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"I can guarantee this truth: Of all the people ever born, no one is greater than John the Baptizer. Yet, the least important person in the kingdom of heaven is greater than John.
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From the time of John the Baptizer until now, the kingdom of heaven has been forcefully advancing, and forceful people have been seizing it.
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All the Prophets and Moses' Teachings prophesied up to the time of John.
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If you are willing to accept their message, John is the Elijah who was to come.
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Let the person who has ears listen!
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"How can I describe the people who are living now? They are like children who sit in the marketplaces and shout to other children,
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'We played music for you, but you didn't dance. We sang a funeral song, but you didn't show any sadness.'
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"John came neither eating nor drinking, and people say, 'There's a demon in him!'
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The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and people say, 'Look at him! He's a glutton and a drunk, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!' "Yet, wisdom is proved right by its actions."
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Then Jesus denounced the cities where he had worked most of his miracles because they had not changed the way they thought and acted.
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"How horrible it will be for you, Chorazin! How horrible it will be for you, Bethsaida! If the miracles worked in you had been worked in Tyre and Sidon, they would have changed the way they thought and acted long ago in sackcloth and ashes.